I am sorting through some of the news noise lately, so let me get this right.
The billionaires who own us own everything, and they keep getting richer and richer.
Sociopaths are running the economy, AI is getting bigger and bigger, consuming massive amounts of energy and discharging massive environmental impacts in data centers. In some cases, they poison the water they run out.
The best case is AI technology works and everybody loses their job.
The social safety net is cut and food banks are cut, food stamps are cut and the social safety net is gone. You’re kicked off your Medicaid and you don’t have a job anymore.
Now we sit back and watch Elon Musk get paid a trillion dollars and we watch other billionaires make tons of money from selling banned goods and scams.
Meanwhile, these rich people can call up the president to tell him what a fine job he’s doing blowing up fishing boats and killing civilians. It turns out, when you’re a billionaire, crime is legal.
Our country now stands tall as the administration talks about invading other countries. All right, how many countries can we invade at once? What’s the record?
This situation is turning into a total hellscape.
I hope you stay tuned because there is an election coming up next November.
Can we survive that long?
Every effort we each make counts.
I know we can do better.
Bill Biery
Sequim